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you're SO awesome, I knew you loved to read so I knew it was a good question to ask you. I just want a good book to read, I like a lot of different kinds of books so I'm easy to please. Thanks for your suggestions and if you think of anymore please post them! Dluvs,![]()
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you're SO awesome, I knew you loved to read so I knew it was a good question to ask you. I just want a good book to read, I like a lot of different kinds of books so I'm easy to please. Thanks for your suggestions and if you think of anymore please post them!
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You know I've heard a lot of people, all Christians, say that Harry Potter is demonic... and filled with witchcraft and whatnot. So I never read them. Besides, I thought they were for kids.HARRY POTTER!
Woah sorry a nerd just got a hold of my keyboard for a minute there! Erm.....
I read all of them - they were great. My church in Colorado Springs even did a Potter Project VBS one year - the NYT came out and did a story on it.You know I've heard a lot of people, all Christians, say that Harry Potter is demonic... and filled with witchcraft and whatnot. So I never read them. Besides, I thought they were for kids.
Then I read an article about J K Rowling, and she professes to be a Christian herself.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Rowling is a member of the Church of Scotland. She once said, "I believe in God, not magic."[95] Early on she felt that if readers knew of her Christian beliefs, they would be able to "guess what is coming in the books."[96] Rowling has stated that she struggles with her own beliefs. In an interview with the Today Show in July 2007, she said, "...until we reached Book Seven, views of what happens after death and so on...would give away a lot of what was coming. So … yes, my belief and my struggling with religious belief and so on I think is quite apparent in this book."[97]
I think most people put a negative connotation to Harry Potter because they can't get around the fantasy aspect. But even JRR Tolkien and C.S. Lewis used the fantasy genre to convey their Christian beliefs. So I am kind of torn. I think I may read the Harry Potter series now.